All hell has broken loose at the TVA following the death of He Who Remains, and Loki is once more lost and utterly alone. But then a forgotten face from his past reappears, presenting the trickster god with a new, yet strangely familiar riddle to be solved.
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The Rolling Stones Song About the Death of Brian Jones
“As Jones had fallen so far into his addiction without recognising it, the band felt the only thing they could do was leave him behind. A few months later, he was dead. On the surface, it looked like The Stones responded in a cold and uncaring way. They continued on their road to the top without much acknowledgement of their lost friend or seemingly much upset over the sad passing.
That was until 1972 when one track on Exile On Main St sat as a sad ode to the souring of an old friendship. ‘May the good Lord shine a light on you, make every song your favourite tune,’ Jagger sings on ‘Shine A Light’, a song that was started with Jones but came to be a kind of elegy to the musician.
The earliest version of ‘Shine A Light’ goes back to 1968 when Jones was still in the group. Jagger seemed to begin penning the track right as the guitarist was slipping away from them and becoming estranged from his old friends. As the situation grew uglier, the musician only spiralled deeper into his addiction, and his friends didn’t seem to know what to do about it. That’s where the song begins as Jagger describes a sad scene, singing, “Saw you stretched out in room ten o’nine, with a smile on your face and a tear right in your eye.”
The band didn’t finish the song for years as it seemed to get shelves for a prolonged period. After the death of Jones, however, Jagger returned to the track. As the piece goes on, the verses become more and more heavenly, almost following the timeline from Jones’ final days through to his passing. By the finale, Jagger is singing “come on up now” like a command from God, using the central image of the light as a comment on Jones going to some better place in the afterlife and hopefully finding a healthier and happier version of himself there.
While the Stones’ feelings towards Jones still to this day feel confusing, and the band members never really discussed their friend’s death with much kindness or care beyond cold, business-like statements as it was merely colleagues parting ways, this track feels like an insight into their true emotions. ‘Shine A Light’ stands as their eulogy to a friend and fallen legend who they couldn’t help but hope some power somewhere could after he’d found peace.”
Shine a Light: https://youtu.be/Vln9V7dDrIY?si=-8XgYJnemgy0ZF9t
- D just made my day or night rather. My sister shared some anti-immigrant bullshit on her FB (we aren’t FB friends) and my son responded “WTF were you hacked?”
- On Thursday I stopped at a newly opened brewery located in deeply rural Indiana. On the way I probably passed a dozen confederate flags and I worship trump hate Biden banners. Was totally shocked by my bartender’s progressive outlook. I’m guessing she was early 40’s and said she’d never traveled anywhere. I’d like to trade sisters.
Something I can’t stop thinking about lately is a talk that my spouse and I had back on December 18th, the first night of Chanukkah...you see, we had two Chanukkiah, or Chanukkah Menorah - the lamps with the eight candles plus the one helper candle that you light. You’re supposed to have one per person in your household. And you’re supposed to put at least one in the window where the most people can see it if you can. It IS “The Festival of Lights” after all, right?
The issue that we had, though, was how visibly Jewish did we want to appear to the public? Because we had to consider the high rate of antisemitic hate crimes in the area. We could put one in the window facing the apartment courtyard…which we did do for the first 2 nights. But then not a whole lot of people would see it.
So on the third night, we decided to switch it to our main front window that faces the street. We came to the conclusion that it would be okay since our building in particular has security cameras outside the building. And because we just didn’t want to have that feeling of living in fear.
I think what really was the deciding factor was when we went out to go get the mail earlier that evening together and we looked up and saw our neighbors Christmas tree in their window. And we realized that they don’t have to worry about this kind of thing. Not even a little bit.
To some people it might seem silly - a tiny little Chanukkiah in the window of an apartment window slowly gaining a light over the course of eight days. But to those who know and who understand the real stories and history of Chanukkah…those lights mean so much more. Those lights mean resilience. They mean hope in the darkness.